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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 19 March 1907, Page 3

•JOHN REDMOND’S PLAIN DECORATION.' . Received 10.4 p.m.” March 18. LONDON, March 18. Mr. John Redmond, spoaking at Bradford, said that Government, were about to some devolution. They were endeavoring by tinkering a rotten system to foform it. Nothing would satisfy Ireland but an Irish Parliament with executive responsibility. If the Government scheme laid a foundation whereon they could build and havo genuine control of oven the question of administration alone, and lightened the financial burden under which Ireland staggered, then possibly Ireland might seriously considor whether it ought not to bo accepted for what it was worth. The popular convention pf Nationalist forces must decide. Ho warned the Government that they must choose between trusting to the people passing a scheme, whether short of Home Rule or not, upon brood, popular, democratic principles, and the alternative of breaking with Ireland and the Notional party, with tho prospect of again attempting to govern by means of tho rusty, diecredited weapon of coercion. Received 10.22 p.m. March IS. Mr. W. Redmond, speaking at Ashington, Northumberland, said he hoped the forthcoming measure would at least bo the foundation of that liberty whereof Irishmen had been deprived for centuries. Received 11.45 pm., March IS. Mr. T. O Connor, at Manchester, declared that if the House of Lords rejected the coming measure, which must be a reality and not a sham, the Nationalists would strike a heavier blow than ever before, and in this connection help to place in the same dishonored tomb Dublin Castle and tho House of Lords. A FEMALE MONSTER. POISONER OF LODGERS. Received 11.32 p.m. March lsT“” BERLIN, March IS. Fiege, a peasant woqian, was sentenced to death at Hirschberg, Silesia, for poisoning four lodgers successively. She induced them to each make a will in her favor. SOUTH AFRICA. DANGER OF NATIVE RISING. Received 11.32 p.m. March 18. PIETERMARITZBERG, March 18. A public meeting at Welmouth, Zululand, demanded the erection of h gaol and laager. The natives are unrestful. Their conduct is described as worse than before the rebellion. It is stated that one chief has only to raise his finger to cause a general rising. ( THE NAVY. LATEST TYPE OF VESSELS. Receivod 11.32 p.m. Mircli IS. LONDON, March IS. Tho utmost secrecy is preserved regarding tho details of the new cruiser Indomitable, embodying experiments in tho latest developments suggested by recent warfare and gunpowder. The speed is 25 knots, exceeding that of any cruisers. The sister ships Invincible and Inflexible are in course of 'constniction at Elsewick and Clydebank works. FIRES. LONDON, March 17. A fire in the City Road, London, destroyed three largo warehouses and damaged other buildings. The total loss is estimated at £200,000. NEW YORK, March 17. Mr. Upton Sinclair’s Socialistic colony at New Jersey has been destroyed by fire. Fifty-five inmates, including tho novelist himself, jumped from the windows in their night clothes. One was killed and several injured. Press Association. NAPIER, yesterday. A fire on Saturday night practically gutted a six-roomed dwelling in Carlyle street, owned and occupied by Mrs. Campbell. No one was in the house at the time. The insurances on the house and furniture are £4OO in the London and Lancashire. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a six-roomed house in Moorhouse Avenue, occupied by Henry Thomson. The house was insured for £SOO. Thp office is not known. The furniture was covered for £IOO in the State office. The cause is supposed to have been a defective chimney. DUNEDIN, yesterday. (Buildings in Moray Place, partly occupied by Mrs. Wilson as a _ fish supper room, and partly as a Chinese laundry, were burned down shortly after midnight. Mrs. Wilson’s stock was insured in the North British for £SO. Ching. Lee’s laundry was uninsured. The building was owned by W- J- Brown, of Mornington, and was insured in the United for £SOO. Brown estimates his loss at £4OO. WELLINGTON, yesterday. A fire at Island Bay destroyed two cottages occupied by Mrs. Leonidas Smith and Patrick Lundon, and owned by Francis J. Armstrong. It is believed Mrs. Smith struck a light in a bedroom, which sot fire to her clothes, tho flames spreading to the building itself. Mrs. Smith was badly burned about the upper portion of tho body, and has been removed to hospital. The cottages wore insured for £450 each in the Alliance. Lundon was insured. It is _ unknown .whether Mrs. Smith was insured.